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Chris Crutcher Quotes

I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character.

Chris Crutcher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 17, 1946

Topics

Good Character Story View Look Bad

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic.

Jim Lovell

Year Born I Was Born Trip Made His

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

Andrew Sarris

Me You Say Movies Way Old

I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.

Melvyn Bragg

Day Luck Believe Every Day Years

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.

Mo Rocca

Love Peace Me Earth Cookies Meet

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

Lukas Foss

More Inspiration Arts Replace Idea

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

Lou Reed

Music Challenge You Whatever Out

The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

Chris Hadfield

Nature Space Random World You Look

Take risks and try new things.

Chiara Ferragni

New Things Risks New Try Take

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

Chris Patten

Freedom Responsibility Balance Trying

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

William Vickrey

Government Budget Real Point Seek

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.

Peter Coyote

History Day Creative Writing Rest

I don't wear shoes that are going to give me any pain. I just cannot do that.

Sheila Heti

Shoes Pain Me Wear Give Me Going